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What positive trends were happening in the country during the era of Transcendentalism?
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Advances in science, agriculture, and transportation
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Name two of the best known Transcendentalists?
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Thoreau and Emerson
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Where did the idea of transcendentalism originate and what does the term mean?
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Kant, a german philosopher, and the term means to gain intuitively
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Which author is thought to embody the spirit of this movement (Transcendentalism)?
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Emerson
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What was this author's major work (Emerson)?
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Nature
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Who is the author of Walden?
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Thoreau
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What is the central subject of Walden?
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Nature
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What are some of Thoreau's philosophies?
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individualism, simplicity, and passive resistance to justice
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What are two of the authors who were considered to be Anti-Transcndentalists?
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Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne
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What are Melville's and Hawthorne's most famous works?
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Moby Dick and The Scarlet Letter
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What was the name given to the group of poets that were popular during this time?
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The Fireside Poets
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Why is this group called The Fireside Poets?
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because their work dealt with love, nature, home, family and children
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Name four poets which were considered to be of the group Fireside Poets?
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Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, Lowell
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Which poet during this time period became a recluse for the last twenty years of her life?
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Emily Dickinson
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What was her attitude toward the publishing of her poems?
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She didn't want them published; however, they were published in 1890 and 1955
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